I am interested in doing some kernel development on Fedora. I am familiar
with kernel internals, but I am looking for some tips to help manage the
build, compile, and install cycle. Unfortunately, I am developing against
the Linux Security Module interface, so my work cannot take the form of
a kernel module.

I would like to build RPMs because they are convenient to install,
and they manage the kernel configuration for me. Put another way, I
would like for practical reasons to track the Fedora kernel source RPMs
as opposed to the upstream kernel tree.

I have been working with a few other Fedora contributors on the Fedora 16
feature "XenPvopsDom0", <a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0" title="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/XenPvopsDom0</a>.
This feature would provide a robust virtualization alternative based on
Xen. Xen is a type-1, hypervisor-based platform and therefore has some
different properties than KVM, et al.

One of the integration points we'd like to improve has to do with
grubby.

I am interested in seeing Bugzilla #676945, VIPS package is out of date,
addressed before Fedora 15 is released. The reason for my interest is that
one of my packages, dmapd, requires the new version of VIPS. The new VIPS
provides additional functionality that can be used to efficiently create
thumbnail images and read existing thumbnails from EXIF metadata.

For quite some time during the ramp up to Fedora 10, X has not worked
on my PowerPC iBook. I have submitted a bug report (Bugzilla #463118)
and a few people have mentioned a similar problem. Is anyone out
there using a PowerPC iBook / Radeon Mobility 9200 to test Rawhide?
What is your experience?